Guess What Car It Is

[Wireless]

Roop did you get this one???

I can't see that one. My over-zealous firewall has blocked it...!

Oh and yours looks like an old VW Polo saloon.

Close but no cigar...

[ryanbored]

oh and to be exact the 1.7 HC

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! Now gimme your lunch money!

[caddy shack]

My go

thats gotta be a metro with a moded boot

[Blacque Jacque]

.. more than likely Japanese??

Nope

and perhaps even a bit French or Italian.

No and no

My over-zealous firewall has blocked it...!

How rude

Wireless - Passat about 1983 ?

[Wireless]

Wireless - Passat about 1983 ?

Nope, sorry.

Clue: Much smaller than a Passat.

[Blacque Jacque]

Ah must be a fox then ?

[Wireless]

thats gotta be a metro with a moded boot

Bingo...! The only one in existence...! It's actually not a mod - factory prototype:

[Blacque Jacque]

Um...... I thought we weren't doing prototypes ?

[monster_beetle]

Jup, no prototypes indeed

[caddy shack]

i was gonna bet my yota on it thats how sure i was , i knew what it was just by the bumper end cap lol .

[ryanbored]

Bingo...! The only one in existence...! It's actually not a mod - factory prototype:

That is horrible on so many levels

[Karmann]

Nope, your quite wrong, that RULES!!

Tartan blanket on the back shelf, banded stock steelies and a metro turbo lump in the front and that would be the coolest car this planet has ever seen!

[ryanbored]

Nope, your quite wrong, that RULES!!

Tartan blanket on the back shelf, banded stock steelies and a metro turbo lump in the front and that would be the coolest car this planet has ever seen!

I would reply but I can't without being really nasty.......

[gozone]

Argh.. We need to freshen up on the rules about prototypes and such things.. They havent been allowed from the start, and thats good. Some things may very well be impossible to find if they are prototypes..

Coolest car?? IS it a car at all???

Someone tell me how far we have gotten here.. Jacque, if its still your little carnival-rail-thingy thats in "the game" i think we need a small clue, thanks. -

Cheers...

[Blacque Jacque]

OK....a clue:

The manufacturer was much more well known for their war machines, they have been in business for nearly 200 yrs

Oh, and it's not a carnival anything, it's a real car, I promise, over 15,000 produced.

It has a food related nickname, I will accept either it's true name or the nickname.

[gozone]

LOL, i seriously have NO idea at all. Will be exciting to see what it is when someone finds out (IF someone does, lol)

[madaz75]

it's a Messerschmidt 3-wheeler

Probably about .. Gee

can't say.. early model any way.

[Blacque Jacque]

it's a Messerschmidt 3-wheeler

Probably about 1948

Wrong on all 3 counts:

Not a Messerschmidt

4 wheels not 3 (at least it's not 6 this time eh?)

Your date is off by at least 20 yrs

But you've got the scent

Never mind fella, have another go

[madaz75]

Wrong on all 3 counts:

Not a Messerschmidt

4 wheels not 3 (at least it's not 6 this time eh?)

Your date is off by at least 20 yrs

Never mind fella, have another go

Well you've got me then..

You've ruled out Japanese..

So it's not a Dihatsu Midget

It's got 4 wheels, not 3..

I don't know any cars that have 4 wheels and that style of head lamps

Date off by 20 years.. Well.. Umm.. Erk.. I'm bushed

[Blacque Jacque]

OK, that's two people beaten, anyone else want a crack at it ?

[markbt73]

Ok, let me see if I have all the clues in line here:

Not Japanese

Not French or Italian

200+ years in business

Better known for war machines

Before 1928 or after 1968; based on the wood-spoked wheel I can assume for now pre-1928

Food-related nickname.

Did I miss anything? Let me go consult my good friend Google, and I'll be right back...

[markbt73]

I can't seem to find the car, but I'm going to guess the manufacturer is Steyr.

[Blacque Jacque]

Sorry, no, it's not Steyr, but you're thinking along the right lines.

Some slight corrections to your list:

The manufacturer has been in business for nearly 200 yrs.

The food related nickname applies to the car.

They were a famous name in war machines in WWII (Tamiya even makes statics of some of their products from the time).

[BiggusDitchus]

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! Now gimme your lunch money!

LOL, not really recognised it as an Ital as my mates mum had one, I know it was the 1.7 HC as I found the pic he used LOL

[Wireless]

LOL, not really recognised it as an Ital as my mates mum had one, I know it was the 1.7 HC as I found the pic he used LOL

Umm, either my eyesight is really bad of late or that's an HL...? Or am I not enough of a geek to know that when they put HL badges on and a big HL number plate for the promo shots they really meant 'HC'...? Perhaps it's a hybris Ital HL / Marina TC...?